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Lonely and Blue
The magnificent tug Ryan Leet has been laid up at pier 9B in Halifax. Just before the arrival of the salvage tow of Australian Spirit on Friday afternoon, the tug moved from the Mobil dock and the crew...
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Glen help
Atlantic Towing Ltd manages to carry out harbour berthing and even some outside work with the three ASD tugs normally based in Halifax. From time to time if another tug is needed, they have been able...
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Seabed Prince - back for more + update
The Norwegian offshore vessel Seabed Prince is working for Secunda Canada on the export pipeline at the Thebaud gas field near Sable Island. Since no Canadian vessel was available to do the specialized...
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Atlantic Oak returns
Atlantic Oak returned to port following is five year survey in Shelburne. It also had a complete hull re-painting and looks like new.Substitute Atlantic Fir, with its distinctive satcom domes will be...
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Atlantic Teak at Woodside
The veteran Atlantic Towing Ltd tug Atlantic Teak is tied up at the Woodside dock in Dartmouth. The tug arrived just before Christmas, and was one of the last to pass through the Canso Canal, which...
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Halifax built tug a sinker
One of the few tugs built in Halifax lies partially sunk at Trois-Rivières, QC after rolling on its side December 26. The unattended tug had been laid up for several years, and it is understood that...
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Yankee - new life for good ol' tug
The big US tug Yankee arrived in Halifax today on its way to Florida and a new career. Yankee making a slow speed approach to Halifax today.Built in 1976 by Equitable Shipyard in Madisonville, LA as...
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Svitzer buying - UPDATE
The multi-national Svtizer towing operation, although based in Denmark, like its parent company A.P. Moller-Maersk, is arguably the world's largest tug operator, with 430 tugs at last count. It is the...
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The ocean going tug Janus is en route to Halifax. The 19,000 bhp, 220 tBP behemoth is coming to tow the tanker Australian Spirit to Portugal for repair and installation of a new rudder.For all the...
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Janus on the job
Janus arrived in Halifax this morning and tied up under the bow of its prospective tow, Australian Spirit. The tug's extreme width of 18m excited great interest when the tug was built.After arrival...
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Janus - big tow, Listerville - little tow
While waiting for the German tug Janus to begin its tow of the crippled tanker Australian Spirit, another tow passed by. This was the Canadian Naval Auxiliary tug Listerville with a work raft.The raft...
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Baie-Comeau - error notification
In my recent posting about tugs at Baie-Comeau, QC, I made a number of serious errors, which I hereby correct:Â Â Â The tug Svitzer Wombi ex Hi Gang 107 will be deployed to Port-Cartier, not Baie-Comeau....
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Up the Creek, but with a paddle
From the oldies department :Summer trips through Quebec in the 1980s turned up a number of old tugs, many no longer in service.A company called Marinex (formerly Canadian Underwater Works) operated a...
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Marinex Tugs
The company Marinex (formerly Canadian Underwater Works)(C.U.W.) mentioned in my last post, had an interesting fleet of tugs, D.Robidoux was pictured in that post, the others are here in alphabetical...
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Flashback to Tussle
In the last post I mentioned the Canadian Navy's fire boats. Built on the TANAC hulls cancelled at the end of World War II, they were modified with hull sponsons and a complete fire fighting...
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Flashback George M. McKee / Metridia
An interesting tug was built in 1928 by Davie Shipbuilding + Repair in Lauzon, QC. It was built for Anticosti Shipping Co, and as the owner's name would imply it was for service at Anticosti Island....
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Maersk Chignecto back again - updated
Maersk Chignecto arrived back in Halifax today. It was last here in October 2014. It had been fitted out for seabed survey work in the Hibernia and Whiterose oil fields in July and September.See:...
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Saint class tugs of the RCN - from the oldies department -CORRECTED
The Royal Canadian navy built three seagoing tugs in the 1950s with the intention of providing towing services for their larger ships. A large class of Royal Navy tugs built in the World War I era were...
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Sisters not brothers
In parallel with a posting on Shipfaxabout the bankruptcy of Shaheen Natural Resources in 1976, which resulted in four ships put out of work, there were also four tugs that were unemployed as a result...
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